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SPORTS Thursday, Octdber'211997 L Page 13 Men's and women's soccer fairing about .500 this season ful effort in a non-conference game, BY CAROLYN D. BARNF"..s Sports Editor had their second 1-0 loss in over- time. Neither the men's nor women's On September 20, the Terror soccer learns have shown any signs played Haverford College, a game of an extremely good or bad fall which was both teams' CC opener. season, but both teams definitely Bowles scored his first season goal have the potential to be conference with 12:56 left in regulation, though contenders. the first goal for WMC was made For the men, junior midfielder by Strine. The game ended with a Art Crouse, of Westminster, returns 2-2 tie in overtime. from last year where he led the Frostburg State University shut team in scoring. Sophomore Ryan the Terror out on September 23 with Bowles, of Hampstead, joins a score of 6-0. Despite this loss, Crouse in strong scoring. Junior WMC came back on September 27 Duane Campbell, from Santa Cruz, with a 3-1 victory over Swarthmore Trinidad, will help at forward, College. WMC received its lead white senior co-captain Costas courtesy of freshman Darren Wolf, Hadjipsaltis, of Nicosia, Cyprus, who scored his firsttwo collegiate heads the defense. Sophomore Jus- goals. The third goal was made by lin Weiner returns with Some ex- senior JeffSoltz. perience as goalkeeper. As for the women, they came In the men's season opener, into the fall season having been the they played a tough non-confer- only team in the Centennial Con- jOS~ (JUIlA) SIQUEtRA ence game against St. Mary's Col- ference (CC) to defeat Johns lege, but lost in the first sudden- Hopkins last season, yet they fell In a recent home game against holds Frostburg Slate University 011 September 23, WMC gave up six goals. Despite the shutout, the team currently 0 2·3·/ record overall. death overtime period 1-0. short of serious contention for the Just four days later, on Septem- title. Despite this upset, they may The team only has three fresh- Blasi, a transfer from West Vir- ber 10, the men bounced back to have the most potent forward line man, but these new players will ginia, broke a [-I tie off assists Terror's lead to 3-1 with 31:40 re- maining, Blasi then netting the fi- defeat Goucher College 3-1. Jun- in the conference this season. learn much from the tremendous from Stoehr and Murphey, with 31 nal goal. ior forward Dan Strine and junior Returning are three All-Centen- amount of experience the team car- minutes left in the second half. Just two days later, WMC midfielder Martin Oswiecirnka, of nial Conference forwards: senior ries. Along with Backof and Senior forward Judi Remnitz, of proved victorious once again, win- Westminster, netted respective first-teamer Erin Murphey, of Murphey, senior back Nik i Needham, MA, scored the first ning 2-0 over Franklin and goals during a three-minute span Linwood, MD; senior Erin Kelly, Grandrimo, of Clementon, NJ, and Terror goal with an assist from Marshall College in a CC game. of the first half to lead WMC pas! of Deer Park, NY, a second-teamer; senior midfielder Lynnae Stoehr, of Hannibal. Backof registered 13 Twelve minutes into the game, host Goucher in a non-conference and junior Natalie Hannibal, of Mission Viejo, CA captain the saves in this outing. match. Senior co-captain and Sykesville, MD, also a second- team .. Saturday, the second day of the Blasi scored her fourth goal of the season with an assist from Remnitz. midfielder Christian Abildso added teamer. Kelly and Hannibal return The ladie"s}'iirs( game agatnst Invitational put WMC against a latc insurance goal for the Green after scoring 28 goals combined last Shippensburg, was played on Sep- Remnjtz then scored her fourth was to which Terror, accounting for the final season. Murphey alone had 16 tal- tember 5 in the first round of the Elizabethtown out where Terror the Blue goal of the season, goal of the game, the shut be the winning 3-0. Jays margin. Weiner, goalkeeper, reg- lies, including a Conference-record Elizabethtown College Blue Jay Backof made eight saves in the midway through the first half. istered 12 saves forWMC. Crouse of 14 in CC games. Invitational. Sophomore forward game. and freshman Dave McConley, for- Senior Christine Kalobius, of Beth Blasi, of Columbia, MO, The Terror came back strong Backof aided the Terror's triumph with 15 saves. ward/midfielder, of Hanover, NH, Sicklerville, NJ, leads in midfield, made her debut performance by on September 18, against Goucher September 24 brought WMC a each made an assist. while goalkeeper Julie Backof of scoring the game-winning goal, College. Blasi scored two goals, loss of 4-2 against the University The men played Catholic on Westminster, posted an 88.3 save- giving the Terror their first winning September 17, but after a power- percentage in '96', game at 2-1. and Erin Kelly lent two assists to of Notre Dame. The Lady Terrors, however, did not let this loss get help WMC to a non-conference win of4-1. them down, for, on September 27, Kelly assisted Blasi to her first they defeated Swarthmore 5-1. goal in the final minutes of the first Blasi, freshman Marci Short, and half. After a Goucher goal, Erin Murphey each scored, the latter of Murphey broke the tie and put whom made an assist on Kalobius's WMC back in the lead. goal JUS!68 seconds later. Hannibal Judi Remnitz widened the also scored. AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY CONTACT THE Junior forward Natalie Hannibal fights to drive the ball towards the opponents goal in a recent home outing. The women ore currently 4-2 overall and 2-0 ill the Centennial Conference BURSARS OFFICE